Senior Python Developer Jobs

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 831 798
Rank change year-on-year +170 -33 +160
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 74 68 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.066% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.069% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48 57 85
10th Percentile - £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £76,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.31% +8.93% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 53,806 98,156 78,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.55% 94.80% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 29,744 68,646 53,875
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £44,109
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.00%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Python Developer.

Salary trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +160 74 £80,000 -12.33% 18
London +118 66 £80,000 -20.00% 12
Work from Home +85 33 £73,500 -20.54% 9
UK excluding London +136 8 £60,000 -21.31% 8
North of England +37 5 £60,000 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 1
North West +3 2 £60,000 -25.00%
South East +62 1 - - 5
East of England +35 1 £75,000 +38.89% 2
West Midlands - 1 £70,000 -
Midlands - 1 £70,000 -

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) Python
2 36 (48.65%) Finance
3 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
4 30 (40.54%) Test Automation
4 30 (40.54%) Flask
5 26 (35.14%) AWS
6 21 (28.38%) QA
7 19 (25.68%) Azure
7 19 (25.68%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (25.68%) Serverless
8 18 (24.32%) Hedge funds
8 18 (24.32%) Data Structures
8 18 (24.32%) Django
8 18 (24.32%) Linux
9 17 (22.97%) C++
9 17 (22.97%) Banking
9 17 (22.97%) Algorithms
9 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (21.62%) Databricks
10 16 (21.62%) Public Sector
10 16 (21.62%) Order Management
10 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
10 16 (21.62%) Low Latency
10 16 (21.62%) NoSQL
10 16 (21.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 16 (21.62%) Equities
10 16 (21.62%) OOP
10 16 (21.62%) OO
10 16 (21.62%) Management Information System
10 16 (21.62%) Front Office

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) AWS
2 19 (25.68%) AWS Lambda
2 19 (25.68%) Azure
2 19 (25.68%) Serverless
3 13 (17.57%) GCP
4 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.35%) CloudAMQP
6 1 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) NoSQL
2 14 (18.92%) DynamoDB
3 13 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (14.86%) RDBMS
4 11 (14.86%) Relational Database
5 9 (12.16%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.70%) Tick Data
7 1 (1.35%) AlloyDB
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Git
General
1 36 (48.65%) Finance
2 17 (22.97%) Banking
3 16 (21.62%) Front Office
3 16 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 12 (16.22%) Manufacturing
4 12 (16.22%) Marketing
5 11 (14.86%) Electronics
5 11 (14.86%) Telecoms
6 9 (12.16%) Health Technology
6 9 (12.16%) Publishing
6 9 (12.16%) Tech for Good
7 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
8 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.70%) Back Office
9 2 (2.70%) Games
9 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.35%) Advertising
10 1 (1.35%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (40.54%) Flask
2 18 (24.32%) Django
3 16 (21.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 14 (18.92%) React
5 13 (17.57%) RESTful
6 12 (16.22%) FastAPI
7 11 (14.86%) REST
8 10 (13.51%) PySpark
9 8 (10.81%) Swagger
10 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
10 4 (5.41%) Vue
11 2 (2.70%) .NET
11 2 (2.70%) pytest
12 1 (1.35%) AWS SAM
12 1 (1.35%) DOM
12 1 (1.35%) HTML
12 1 (1.35%) Pyramid
12 1 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Data Structures
1 18 (24.32%) Hedge funds
2 17 (22.97%) Algorithms
3 16 (21.62%) Equities
3 16 (21.62%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.32%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
2 30 (40.54%) Test Automation
3 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (21.62%) Low Latency
4 16 (21.62%) OO
4 16 (21.62%) OOP
4 16 (21.62%) Order Management
5 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
6 13 (17.57%) Agile
7 12 (16.22%) Process Improvement
7 12 (16.22%) Product Management
8 11 (14.86%) Architectural Patterns
8 11 (14.86%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (14.86%) Configuration Management
8 11 (14.86%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (14.86%) Programme Management
8 11 (14.86%) TDD
8 11 (14.86%) User Experience
8 11 (14.86%) UX Design
8 11 (14.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (22.97%) C++
3 8 (10.81%) SQL
3 8 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.76%) Java
5 3 (4.05%) C#
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) C
6 1 (1.35%) Go
6 1 (1.35%) Ruby
6 1 (1.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (28.38%) QA
System Software
1 15 (20.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.57%) Terraform
3 4 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Databricks
2 13 (17.57%) Google
3 11 (14.86%) SAP
4 4 (5.41%) SimCorp